Halloween Fun Facts
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Create an infographic to display fun facts about Halloween, classroom polls, and more!
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- Halloween dates back 2000 years to the Celtic festival of Samhain or "summer's end". 53% of U.S. consumers decorated their homes in 2020. Hocus Pocus is ranked by IMDB as the number one Halloween movie of all time! In medieval Ireland children went door-to door performing songs or poems or "tricks" in exchange for "treats". Pumpkin carving comes from the Irish legend of Stingy Jack who tricked the devil and wandered the globe carrying a lantern - "Jack of the Lantern". Halloween is the second largest commercial holiday in the U.S. after Christmas.
- People in the U.S. who celebrated Halloween in 2020.
- Halloween Fun Facts!
- 148 Million
- Percentage of Americans who carved pumpkins in 2020.
- 46%
- U.S. consumers spent on decorations, candy and costumes in 2020.
- $8Billion
- Number 1 Adult Costume: Witch Number 1 Pet Costume: Pumpkin
- 3.1 Million Princesses 2.4 Million Superheroes 2 Million Spider-Mans 1.4 Million Batmans
- Top Costumes of 2019
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